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Christmas Activities

This Christmas why not get out and about with your family? There are loads

of amazing places in Cornwall to visit and lots of fun places to explore!

Here are some of our teams favourite ideas for the Holidays.

Trelissick Gardens to visit the Reindeer—Reindeers there every weekend

10am—5pm They also have the Garden illuminated at night !!

Heligan Garden’s—check out their website for details of their special Garden

lit nights. Boxing day it is free to go to Heligan if you don’t already have a fam-

ily pass !! A great chance to walk off your Christmas dinner !!

For a bit closer to home there is Cornish Pisky Pals Pisky Trail in Coverack

village starting today Great fun and get to hunt the village for little cheeky

piskies !! Enjoy the Coverack Christmas lights when it gets dark, we never get

bored of the amazing display !

Or head to Tehidy woods for a stomp in muddy puddles, kick about in the

leaves, and watch the squirrels climbing in the trees!!

A good stank on Coverack beach is just the thing after all the busy Christmas

celebrations, hunt for rocks, sea-glass and shells and warm up afterwards

with a Hot Chocolate. Whatever you do this Christmas have a Fantastic time

see you in the New Year ! Ho Ho Ho ! From the It’s Covered team.

It’s Covered Magazine

A magazine made by Children for

Children

Christmas Special!

Sponsored by Lizard Outreach Trust and CRCC

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Photo by Harvey Parker

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Christmas around the World - by The it’s covered team !

In Coverack traditionally people swim in the sea in the harbour on Christmas day !! These

wild but hardy folk get dressed in various costumes and fancy dress, but wetsuits are seen

as cheating !!

In India at Christmas they Celebrate by lighting special clay lamps., and have a big parade

wearing their most colourful clothes. Houses are decorated and have a star on them.

In Iceland at Christmas, they put shoes out on their window sills and the next morning

they are filled with sweets!!

In Germany they traditionally have glass pickle decorations at Christmas !! And we

thought the Christmas swimming was interesting !!!

In Guatemala they eat their main Christmas meal on Christmas eve which is traditional

and always includes tamales. Everyone stays up until Midnight and then let off fireworks or

firecrackers and they say a family prayer around the tree, then traditionally open presents

after this.

In Finland they decorate their Christmas tree on Christmas eve and it gets dark at just 3pm.

Their traditional pudding at Christmas is Rice pudding, they put one almond in it and if you

get the almond, they believe you will have good luck all year !

In Hong Kong people decorate their homes with poinsettia plants and tinsel and they have

Christmas trees, they also like to celebrate with fireworks, lights and laser shows. Christ-

mas celebrations are different and fun all over the world, but lots of them use light to cele-

brate, which is rather fitting as Jesus said I am the light of the world.

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Christmas Games

Brooke’s Family have been doing the Christmas hat competition for the last 40

years ! They have created some amazing hats, shame we don’t have pictures !

So if you do play this Game over Christmas and you do make an amazing crea-

tion you want to share. Send us a picture at itscoveredmagazine@gmail.com

( ask parents permission first of course) Right so to play this game you will

need LOTS of rolls of tape, staplers, and scissors. The wrapping from all of your

presents in a pile in the middle, boxes from toys, empty cracker wrappers, party

popper leftovers, corks ,bottle tops, empty Pringle tubes, anything you have

used that day to make your creation! ( Obviously I’d leave the dinner leftovers

in the bin!!)

You have half an hour to make the most creative amazing and impossible hat

creation you can !! Recycling and fun in one activity Fab!! Thanks Brooke for

the great idea !

Up Jenkins ! The Penny Game that keeps you guessing ! People sit opposite

each other at a table one has a coin under there hand they move the coin up

and down the table and then discreetly move it into someone else’s lap, they

then get it underneath their palm and everyone puts their palms in front of

them face down on the table each person takes it in turns to try to guess who

has the coin under their palm !!

Why not email us with your favourite party games this Christmas at

itscoveredmagazine@gmail.com ( always ask you parents permission before

emailing, Thanks )

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Photography Competition

Well Done to those who took part in our Nature Photog-

raphy Competition the standard was variety was very

high !! … The Results are as follows …

First Place: Harvey Parker for his Butterfly photograph, It’s

vibrancy made it a worthy winner, Well Done Harvey!!

Second place : Arthur Foster for his birds on a feeder, we

really loved this photograph, it must have taken a lot of

patience to get !!

Third place : Oliver Mitchell for his very Wintry Helford

Landscape. Well Done Oliver, very atmospheric !!

All our team were all very impressed with all of the en-

tries and It took a long time to choose our winners !

Fantastic job everyone !! Hope you enjoy your Prizes and

they help you to take even more amazing Photographs !!

Many Thanks from

The It’s covered team

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Marshmallow Snowmen – by Lily Relton.

These scrumptious snacks re perfect for the seasonal time of Christmas! I like to use

these as decoration for my family’s gingerbread house.

YOU WILL NEED:

200g (a bag) average size WHITE marshmallows

Brown/black writing icing

Coloured liquorice strips or strawberry laces

Matchmakers (or similar)

Large Chocolate Buttons

100g mini WHITE marshmallows

About 10 cocktail sticks/

A batch of WHITE water icing

Makes about 10

1. Place the marshmallows on a tray.

2. Push two average size marshmallows onto each cocktail stick. ASK AN ADULT to trim off any of

the excess sticks poking out the top.

3. Using writing icing, pipe a face onto the top marshmallow and three dots for buttons onto the bot-

tom marshmallow.

4. Cut the liquorice strips or strawberry laces into appropriate lengths/widths. And tie around “neck”

for a scarf.

5. For the arms break the matchmakers in half and poke into the snowman’s side if they droop then

cut shorter.

6. Dollop a SMALL blob of icing onto the top of the snowman’s head and pop the chocolate button on-

to it. Next dollop another blob on top of the chocolate button and place a mini marshmallow on top of

that.

7. Repeat this until you have either made as many as you want to or have run out of ingredients!

8. To serve sprinkle icing sugar (or similar) onto the snowmen as snow (this is optional).